Sukhe aloo ki sabzi (Boiled sautéed potatoes with masala)

﻿﻿S﻿﻿﻿ukehe aloo is a mouthwatering delicious dish one can never get enough of it. Sukehe aloo and poori is one of the favorite breakfast combinations in North India.

In Hindi Sukhe mean dry and aloo means potato. This dish consists of nothing but potatoes and spices. Boiled potatoes are sautéed with oil and spices. The spices form a thin, aromatic spicy-tangy crispy crust over the potatoes making them delicious to eat.

2. Place the potatoes in pressure cooker add water. Close the lid of the pressure cooker, place the weight on the lid and boil on medium high heat. (You can also boil potatoes in a sauce pan but it takes long time to boil them)

Wash the Potatoes well

Place the potatoes in cooker & boil

3. Open the cooker and check boiled potatoes by inserting a knife or fork in the center, it should go in easily all the way to the center without any efforts, it means the Potatoes are done.​

Close the Pressure cooker

Open the cooker & check potatoes

​4. Drain potatoes in a strainer or lift whole potatoes out with a slotted spoon or tongs.

5. let the Potatoes cool down.

​6. Peel the Potatoes with the fingers.

Pour the water out & let the Potatoes cool down

Peel the boiled Potatoes

7. ​With the fingers or with a spoon break the potatoes into small pieces or with ​ a knife cut them into small pieces.

Boiled peeled Potatoes

Break the Potatoes in small pieces

8. On medium high heat add 2 tablespoons oil in a nonstick frying pan or a heavy bottomed stainless steel pan, add cumin seeds and asafetida and fry them for 2 to 3 minutes or until cumin seeds become dark brown

Boiled Potato pieces

In a pan add oil, cumin seeds and asafetida and fry

9. Add crushed chilies and fry for few seconds.

10. Add potatoes pieces.

Add crushed chilies & fry

Add boiled Potato pieces

​11. Sprinkle Coriander powder, Mango powder, Red chili powder and salt, with a spatula mix every thing together and fry on medium heat.

Sprinkle Coriander powder, Red chili powder, Mango powder and salt

Mix the Potatoes with spices

12. Potatoes become little dry while frying, sprinkle 1 tablespoon oil over the potatoes and mix with spatula.

13. Fry one side for 2 minutes, with the spatula turn them to the other side then fry the other side for 2 minutes. Keep repeating. ​

14. Potatoes looks dry to avoid adding more oil just cover the pan and turn the heat to low, the moisture will make potatoes moist and the surface will become crisp.​​

Sprinkle oil over potatoes

Cover the pan

​15. In about 10 to 12 minutes the top surface of potatoes will become crisp, once you have the desired crispness turn the stove off.

16. Serve Aloo ki sabzi hot.

Potatoes are fried and ready to be served

Sukhe Aloo

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